NAME¶
sendinpaths - Send Usenet Path: statistics via e-mail
SYNOPSIS¶
sendinpaths [
-cdhn] [
-k keep-days] [
-r
report-days] [
address [
address ...]]
DESCRIPTION¶
sendinpaths checks
pathlog/path for
ninpaths dump files,
finds dump files generated in the past
report-days days, makes sure
they are valid by running
ninpaths on each one and making sure the exit
status is zero, and passes them to
ninpaths to generate a cumulative
report. By default, that report is mailed to the e-mail addresses configured
at the beginning of this script (by default, only one address is configured:
<top1000@anthologeek.net>) in order to supply the TOP1000 project with
useful statistics. See <
http://top1000.anthologeek.net/> for more
information.
When finished,
sendinpaths deletes all dump files in
pathlog/path
that are older than
keep-days days.
For more information on how to set up
ninpaths, see
ninpaths(8).
OPTIONS¶
- -c
- When this flag is used, the report is also e-mailed, besides the default
submission addresses or those given as command-line arguments, to the
newsmaster's address set at configure time.
- -d
- Enables debug messages.
- -h
- Gives usage information.
- -k keep-days
- After having processed dump files, sendinpaths removes those that
are older than keep-days days. The default is 0, that is to say to
remove all dump files.
Setting keep-days to another value can be useful for debugging
purpose because it permits to keep a few dump files.
- -n
- Don't e-mail the report; instead, just print it to standard output. Don't
delete old dump files.
- -r report-days
- Process dump files generated during the last report-days days. The
default is 32, that is to say to process all the dump files that have been
generated during the last 32 days (if, of course, they have not been
deleted yet by a previous run of sendinpaths according to the value
set by the -k flag).
- address ...
- E-mail the report to the mentioned address or addresses, instead of the
default one. Several addresses can be used, separated by whitespace
(sending the e-mail to your own e-mail address can be useful for debugging
purpose, to check that everything works fine). For instance, for two
addresses:
sendinpaths pathsurvey@example.org top1000@anthologeek.net
HISTORY¶
sendinpaths was written by Olaf Titz <olaf@bigred.inka.de>.
$Id: sendinpaths.pod 9625 2014-03-16 13:24:22Z iulius $
SEE ALSO¶
ninpaths(8).